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Republican lawmakers pushing to prevent Kansas from investing its funds using socially and environmentally conscious principles disagree about imposing rules for investment managers handling private …

Wildfires erupt in Riley County... Kansas lawmakers approve a bill to let families use state tax dollars to pay for private schools... demonstrators rally at the Statehouse for Medicaid expansion... and regulators approve a major railroad merger involving Kansas City Southern. Those stories and more... here.

Discord among Kansas Republicans on technicalities of a potential ban on ESG investment by the state has so far prevented legislation from being passed.

Kansas House weighs idea of assessing special tax on charging stations for all-electric vehicles because EV owners are dodging state fuel taxes.

Millennials argue for increasing legislative pay to attract younger and more qualified candidates for office.

Supermajorities in the House and Senate mean Republicans have greater opportunity to block or impose laws on taxation, abortion, education, budgets, guns, medical or recreational marijuana and health care, including Kelly’s quest to expand eligibility for Medicaid.

Cannabis advocates and state legislators discuss the progress being made on a potential medical marijuana bill

Republicans preserved a two-thirds supermajority in the Kansas House to mirror the GOP-dominated Kansas Senate and keep in place this substantial legislative barrier in a second term for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

Preliminary results of 2022 election: Kansas House and Senate will hold two-thirds GOP majorities capable of blunting Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's agenda.

Supermajorities in the House and Senate mean Republicans have greater opportunity to block or impose laws on taxation, abortion, education, budgets, guns, medical or recreational marijuana and health care, including Kelly’s quest to expand eligibility for Medicaid.